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This is something I haven't seen mentioned anywhere elseIf you've got any of the plastic booster or starter boxes for Deadzone, look at what's written on the back at the bottom-right. In among the stuff about models supplied unpainted, etc, there are joke messages. Here are some:


Rebel faction starter: "No-one likes the coffee flavoured Rebels"

Rebel troop booster: "Apparently, you can't stop the signal"

Enforcer troop booster: "Accutek - for when you don't want something to be alive anymore" (or something like that - I haven't got the box anymore)

Plague Support box: "We didn't include the plague squirrel. We have mixed feelings about this."


Anyone care to share more...?

The original Deadzone battle zones terrain box says "And I miss you, like the deserts miss terrian".

On the starter box, the two player icon shows one guy with plague mutations.

I think Mantic has always done this. I remember the old KoW cases all had tiny text with non-sequiturs and funny quips.

 judgedoug wrote:
I think Mantic has always done this. I remember the old KoW cases all had tiny text with non-sequiturs and funny quips.

They do. Someone started a thread on the main forum a while back suggesting more. I was blown away when I got an Ogre Regiment box and found my own suggestion on the back. "Box contains six plastic Ogre miniatures. Does not include talkative donkey."

I gotta go check mine. I've got faction starter boxes for marauders and rebs, and iron ancestors. I think they may have discontinued the quips temporarily during the WP boxen, but maybe not?

They stopped for a while, however a bunch of folk asks for them back.

Yeah. Mars attacks is like dz box, one player has a dome and slightly different shape. The marauders starter says something. Oh yeah! Do not use contents while going commando, or similar.

 squall018 wrote:
The original Deadzone battle zones terrain box says "And I miss you, like the deserts miss terrian".

Loved that one. Reference to a song by 'Everything but the girl' if anyone didn't know.

Nice. As a KS backer, I only have the Starter box as far as original packaging goes, so I didn't notice. Plaid Hat Games do this with Summoner Wars and there's some amazing stuff in there. One card pack I bought said "Oh, hello. I see the assassins have failed."

A bit late to the party, but I figure with the apparent rate of traffic here, I'm not exactly digging up an old thread. I'm glad I found this thread, as I had never bothered to look carefully enough at my KoW boxes. I'll add:

Elves:
"Mantic Entertainment recommends its products for humans aged 10 and up, for Elves aged 55 and over and reminds all creatures (particularly Orcs) that plastic is not a food group."

Dwarfs (it's Dwarves, damn it!):
"Beware, Dwarfs are often closer than they may appear."
"The time of the Dwarfs is now. It's hammer time."

Undead:
"Evil spirits manifest..." (the dullest of the lot, IMO)
"Please try to retain all limbs. As demands of 'Gimme back my hand' are always ignored by Zombies."

 oadie wrote:
Dwarfs (it's Dwarves, damn it!):
"Beware, Dwarfs are often closer than they may appear."
"The time of the Dwarfs is now. It's hammer time."

Dwarfs - 'dwarves' was a linguistic construct by the good Mr. Tolkien. (Halfs becomes halves, calfs become calves, therefor with sufficient use dwarfs will become dwarves.)

The Auld Grump

I think that's the joke....